Minimal in-school SARS-CoV-2 transmission with strict mitigation protocols at two independent schools in Nashville, TN

BACKGROUND: The COVID-19 pandemic has greatly impacted school operations. To better understand the role of schools in COVID-19 transmission, we evaluated infections at two independent schools in Nashville, TN during the 2020-2021 school year. METHODS: The cumulative incidence of COVID-19 within each school, age group, and exposure setting were estimated and compared to local incidence. Primary attack rates were estimated among students quarantined for in-school close contact. RESULTS: Among 1401 students who attended school during the study period, 98 cases of COVID-19 were reported, corresponding to cumulative incidence of 7.0% (95% confidence interval (CI): 5.7-8.5). Most cases were linked to household (58%) or community (31%) transmission, with few linked to in-school transmission (11%). Overall, 619 students were quarantined, corresponding to >5000 person-days of missed school, among whom only 5 tested positive for SARS-CoV-2 during quarantine (primary attack rate: 0.8%, 95% CI: 0.3, 1.9). Weekly case rates at school were not correlated with community transmission. CONCLUSION: These results suggest that transmission of COVID-19 in schools is minimal when strict mitigation measures are used, even during periods of extensive community transmission. Strict quarantine of contacts may lead to unnecessary missed school days with minimal benefit to in-school transmission.

MANAJEMEN PENGELOLAAN DAN PEMBERDAYAAN TANAH WAKAF DI KECAMATAN KEMUNING KOTA PALEMBANG

Waqf is an Islamic religious teaching that aims to build prosperity and develop an advanced civilization. The type of research used by researchers in this study is qualitative research, namely field research conducted by interview, observation, and describing facts in the field. The results of this study indicate that waqf land in Kemuning District, Palembang City is used for the establishment of a tahfidz foundation and mosque construction, as well as for school operations. According to a review of Islamic law in the management of waqf land in Kemuning District, Palembang City, it does not conflict with Islamic law. This can be seen from the business carried out that there is nothing that is contrary to Islamic law and in its implementation there are no elements that are forbidden. In the future, it is necessary to provide education about waqf, especially productive waqf, to nadzir in Kemuning Subdistrict, Palembang City so that its management is more optimal in developing waqf assets productively. Ministry of Religion agencies must actively provide counseling and coordinate with the Land Office, Nadzir, and PPAIW so that their roles and functions can run optimally so that they can increase productive waqf land in Kemuning District, Palembang City.

Empowering Leaders through the COVID -19 Crisis: Implementing a Transformative Communication Model

This study was a reflection on the implementation of a transformative communication model at a school in Central Jamaica to address interruptions in communication and school operations among key stakeholders brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. The researchers sought to establish what kind of support the leaders and teacher leaders needed to improve communication among staff members and pupils in order to restore stability to the school environment. The project employed the Kurt Lewin’s change model: Unfreeze, Change, re-freeze. The study involved seven participants: the leader of the institution and six teachers who operated as teacher leaders with varying leadership portfolios. The researchers found that crisis leadership was necessary to mitigate against the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the institution which existed in the deep rural community. The researchers also found that improving leader’ and teacher leaders’ communication competencies boosted morale and encouraged normalcy in school operations. In applying the transformative communication model, the institution was entirely transferred to the TEAMS platform. A team of international experts in education and communication, that became a sustained extension of the institution, trained the leader and teacher leaders to manage the crisis and increased their communication competencies, while normal school operations continued on the platform. This project demonstrated that in times of crisis, if all stakeholders collaborate, organizational goals can be attained.

Reflections on Online Delivered Lessons, During COVID-19 Induced Restrictions, for Students of Informatics in a Vocational Lyceum of Greece

During the pandemic outbreak of COVID-19, coinciding with school year 2019-2020, house confinement measures were taken throughout Greece. Conventional face-to-face schooling presented a threat to public health. As a result the Greek Ministry of Education proceeded to suspend school operations for a while and sponsor online lessons of various shapes and forms as a temporary measure soon after. The lessons, hastily designed to address extraordinary conditions and delivered in an ad hoc manner utilizing teachers’ personal experiences and preferences to fill a gap created by house confinement, created pressures on existing infrastructures on one hand, and a corpus of diverse experiences, contradicting evidence and on occasion reports on the other. A discussion on that corpus was inevitable and took part originally among teachers of the same school either unofficially or during sessions of the teachers associations of each school. The discussion should and will expand beyond that especially in reference to cases that constitute good practices or where data were collected. To this purpose, this paper presents the case of two theoretical lessons taught at senior high-school students of the Information Applications’ Technician specialty in a Vocational Lyceum. The lessons operated surprisingly well, in comparison to similar lessons, concerning student attendance, student engagement level and continuance. Some data were collected with a questionnaire and their processing later informed discussions during reflection plenary sessions of the online class. An attempt is made to explain the divergence from the general case and reflection on results is used to draw conclusions that may benefit further attempts.

SISTEM INFORMASI REKAP BUKU ONLINE MENGGUNAKAN METODE WATERFALL

The development of Information Technology in the field of education, a survey on the Use and Utilization of Information and Communication Technology was carried out on 4,014 schools in 34 provinces. Based on the level of education, elementary and equivalent as much as 64.55 percent, junior high school and equivalent as much as 19.22 percent and high school and equivalent as much as 16.23 percent. While the use of applications in the field of education is still felt to be lacking especially in rural schools so that there is a gap between urban schools and rural schools. This condition occurs in SMP PGRI Malangbong where the use of applications is still lacking. One example is in the recording of books in schools that are still manual which complicates operations in the school. The solution offered is to create an online book recapitulation system which is expected to be very useful for school operations. The online book recapitulation system was built using the waterfall method starting from the analysis, design, implementation, testing to maintenance stages. Keywords: Book Information system; Books; Schools Abstrak: Perkembangan Teknologi Informasi di bidang pendidikan, survei Penggunaan dan Pemanfaatan Teknologi Informasi dan Komunikasi dilakukan terhadap 4.014 sekolah yang tersebar di 34 provinsi. Berdasarkan jenjang pendidikan, SD dan sederajat sebanyak 64,55 persen, SMP dan sederajat sebanyak 19,22 persen dan SMA dan sederajat sebanyak 16,23 persen. Sedangkan penggunaan aplikasi dibidang pendidikan masih dirasa kurang terutama di sekolah-sekolah pedesaan sehingga terjadinya kesenjangan antara sekolah diperkotaan dan sekolah pedesaan. Kondisi tersebut terjadi pada SMP PGRI Malangbong dimana penggunaan aplikasi masih sangat kurang. Salah satu contohnya adalah dalam perekapan buku di sekolah yang masih bersifat manual yang menyulitkan operasional di sekolah tersebut. Solusi yang ditawarkan adalah dengan membuat sistem rekap buku online yang diharapkan sangat berguna bagi operasional sekolah. Sistem rekap buku online ini dibangun menggunakan metode waterfall mulai dari tahap analisis, desain, implementasi, pengujian sampai dengan pemeliharaan. Kata Kunci : Buku Sekolah; Sistem Informasi Rekap Buku

PEMANFAATAN SOLAR SEL DAN BUDIDAYA PERIKANAN SEBAGAI UPAYA MENUJU KEMANDIRIAN FINANSIAL DI SEKOLAH KAMI

Utilization of Solar Cells and Fisheries Culture as Efforts Towards Financial Independence in Sekolah KAMIAbstract. Sekolah Kami is a non-profit school that provides free non-formal education to scavengers and poor children. This school is located in the middle of scavenger shanties and landfills located in Pemulung Village, Bintara Jaya Village, West Bekasi District, Bekasi City. As an informal school that is managed independently, it requires substantial funding for operations. So far, funding has only relied on donors and the personal money of the School owner. So that the purpose of community service, strive for schools to obtain sustainable income for school operations by utilizing solar cells and aquaculture. The method consists of two stages, namely, build physical capital in the form of fish ponds and solar cell electricity sources; train and assist teachers in Sekolah Kami so that they can manage the facilities and infrastructure built. The results of this activity are the construction of fish ponds with 3x1x0.8 meters of cast cement with two ponds for catfish and tilapia, the realization of DC power sources from renewable energy, namely solar cells with 300 WP power for garden lighting, two pond pumps and an aquaponics pump, and aquaponics are built to grow mustard and watercress, and trained teachers can manage everything well. Good yields and sold in the market indicate this. Money from the sale has been used for school operations and buying fish seeds.Keywords: Catfish cultivation, tilapia, financially independent, solar cells, Sekolah Kami.Abstrak. Sekolah Kami merupakan sekolah nonprofit yang menyediakan pendidikan gratis non formal kepada anak-anak pemulung dan dhuafa. Sekolah ini terletak di tengah lapak pemulung dan tempat pembuangan sampah yang berlokasi di Kampung Pemulung Kelurahan Bintara Jaya, Kecamatan Bekasi Barat, Kota Bekasi. Sebagai sekolah informal yang dikelola secara swadaya sangat memerlukan dana yang cukup besar untuk operasional. Selama ini pembiayaan hanya mengandalkan donatur dan uang pribadi pemilik Sekolah. Pengabdian masyarakat ini bertujuan mengupayakan agar sekolah mendapatkan pemasukan secara berkelanjutan untuk operasional sekolah dengan memanfaatkan solar sel dan perikanan budidaya. Metode yang dilakukan terdiri dari dua tahap, yaitu membangun modal fisik berupa kolam ikan dan sumber listrik solar sel; melatih dan melakukan pendampingan untuk guru di Sekolah Kami agar dapat mengelola sarana dan prasarana yang dibangun. Hasil kegiatan ini adalah terbangunnya kolam ikan dengan bahan semen cor berukuran 3x1x0,8 meter sebanyak dua kolam untuk ikan lele dan nila, terwujudnya sumber listrik DC dari energy terbarukan, yaitu solar sel dengan daya 300 WP untuk penerangan taman, dua buah pompa kolam dan satu buah pompa aquaponik, dan terbangunnya aquaponik untuk menanam pokcay dan selada air, serta guru-guru yang telah dilatih dapat mengelola semuanya dengan baik. Hal ini ditandai dengan hasil panen yang cukup baik dan laku dipasaran. Uang hasil penjualan telah digunakan untuk operasional sekolah dan membeli bibit ikan dan pakan. Kata Kunci: Budidaya lele, nila, solar sel, Sekolah Kami.

Losing STEAM: A Case Study of Failure in School Reform

This study examines issues encountered during a school’s first year implementing science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) curriculum. The school year began with multiple changes in leadership, including the appointment of a School Operations Manager and Teacher on Special Assignment, who took on respective roles of principal and assistant principal. Tension between school and district leadership, a teacher’s arrest, and lack of adequate training for the school’s teachers contributed to the failure of the eighth-grade level’s first-quarter STEAM unit. This study delves into events leading up to—and tensions surrounding—the team’s decision to begin a new unit in the second quarter.

A Journey From Tragedy to Healing

“A Journey From Tragedy to Healing” transcends one administrator's narrative about how her students and teachers were thrust into a culture of fear during the most tragic event the school had ever experienced. The author's story is about how negative experiences can lead schools through journeys of growth and healing to develop a culture of safety. Lessons for teachers and administrators are threaded through rich personal experiences and include reflections on daily school operations designed to promote emotional and physical safety, growing situational awareness of students' wellbeing, learning new approaches to student interactions through the integration of their funds of knowledge, a critical re-examination of instructional and curriculum pedagogy, and the importance of taking care of one's self. The author concludes by reminding teachers not to forget that their mission should be to educate the whole child by meeting their safety, emotional, and academic needs.

Pentingnya Administrasi Pengelolaan Keuangan di Sekolah

School financial management is crucial in teaching and learning activities. With the clear financial management and appropriate impact on school operations and school education. So in the implementation it needs supervision in financial management to minimize the errors that occur. In financial management The process of planning, organizing, directing, coordinating, as well as supervision or control. The purpose of this article is to know about financial management and supervision in financial management. With the management and supervision in financial management make the activities that have been planned in accordance with the objectives to be achieved.